Biographical Information:
Kara Powell, who joined the faculty in 2003, serves as assistant professor of youth and family ministry and executive director of the
Fuller Youth Institute, or FYI (formerly the Center for Youth and Family Ministry, or CYFM). She has recently coordinated seven research projects for FYI’s Urban Empowerment Project as well as its Deep Justice Initiative and College Transition Project.
Powell is the author of
Essential Leadership: Training Onramps for Your Youth Ministry Team (FYI, 2008),
Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them (coauthored with Chap Clark, 2007),
Deep Ministry in a Shallow World (coauthored with Chap Clark, 2006),
Help! I’m a Woman in Youth Ministry (2004), and
Mirror, Mirror (2003). She coauthored the
Good Sex Curriculum Guide (2001, rev 2009), and was general editor for the 16-volume Gospel Light
Pulse junior high curriculum. She is also the co-author of three “Sticky Faith” books, forthcoming in September 2011 (Zondervan).
Prior to serving at Fuller, Powell was an assistant professor of youth ministry and practical theology at Azusa Pacific University. She also served as college pastor at Lake Avenue Church, associate youth minister at San Diego First Assembly of God, and on the student staff for Young Life in the Stanford area. She maintains her License to Preach with the Assemblies of God denomination.
Powell is a regular speaker at Youth Specialties National Youth Workers Conventions and Forest Home Christian Conference Center, as well as retreats and conferences across the country. She also volunteers in student ministries at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena.
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Practical theology, youth ministry, family ministry, junior high ministry, leadership development, youth ministry communication